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About: Albert Camu s

About: Albert Camu s. Scott Choi David Kim. Background. Origin November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960 Mondovi (now Drean), Algeria Mother was half-deaf; Father died in Battle of the Marne in WWI Allies (including French) defeats Germany Grew up in poor conditions University of Algeria

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About: Albert Camu s

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  1. About:Albert Camus Scott Choi David Kim

  2. Background • Origin • November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960 • Mondovi (now Drean), Algeria • Mother was half-deaf; Father died in Battle of the Marne in WWI • Allies (including French) defeats Germany • Grew up in poor conditions • University of Algeria • Tuberculosis • Odd jobs i.e. private tutor, car parts clerk, assistant at Meteorological Institute

  3. Background (cont’d) • Married to: • Simone Hie • Morphine addict • Francine Faure • Loved her, but denounced marriage as unnatural • Twins • Affairs

  4. Political Affiliations • French Communist Party (1935) • Way to fight inequalities b/w Europeans and natives in Algeria • Algerian People’s Party • Denounced as Trotskyite • French anarchist movement

  5. Philosophy • Absurdism • No humans will find true meaning in their universe • Existentialist • Humans are solely accountable for their meaning in life • Did not like to be considered existentialist

  6. Facts • Atheist • But later in life touted the idea that salvation and meaning is longed for • Anti-Totalitarian • Disliked Nazi’s and was within French Resistance • Anti-Capital Punishment • Due to war, he appreciated life more • Meursault’s Death

  7. Novels • The Rebels (1951) • After war, he analyzed rebellion and revolution and expressed his Anti-communist view • The Plague (1947) • Questions destiny and human conditions after everyone around the main character is dying • The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) • Introduces absurdism. • The Happy Death (1971) • Patrice Mersault

  8. Career • Nobel Prize in Literature (1957) • Humanitarian efforts (UNESCO) until Spain accepted into United Nations • Pacifist • Resisted capital punishment

  9. DISCUSSION!!! • “To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.” • “For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”

  10. Fini Albert Camus

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